Academic training

Maria Consuelo Flores Rojas has been a scholarship holder of the doctoral programme "Migrationsgesellschaftliche Grenzformationen" since March 2017. Her research focuses on subjectivation, biographical research, gender and migration studies, research critical of racism and Latin American decolonial theories.

Project outline

Racism without races, borders without borders

The dissertation project examines how academic refugees interact with social boundaries (boundaries of culturalism): The focus here is on subjectivation, in which the subject is in a process of constant (re)construction. A "colonial power matrix" is presented as the context for these interactions from a postcolonial perspective, according to which not just a single factor (race, class, gender, etc.) influences this process, but rather a heterarchy of different powers interacting. The perceptions produced in this matrix materialise in all areas of life.